Kurt:
From, what I've been told it just pays for salaries for city
employees, but has no direct impact on lost or stolen bikes. People in
the know on this list can feel free to correct me if if I am misinformed.
Bill
On 6/14/2015 4:42 PM, kurt bermuda wrote:
Exactly where does that money go?
On Sunday, June 14, 2015, John Rider <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Just a reminder that if you live in Madison, you are legally
required to register your bicycle with the City. And, every
bicycle dealer in the City is required to register every bicycle
that they sell to a Madison resident. The cost is $10.00 for 4
years, but every bike ever registered is still in that database.
Not a well-known ordinance, almost no money for publicity, not a
high priority for the Police or the City Attorney’s Office, but
the ordinance is there none the less. Many bikes have been
returned to their owners by the Police Property Room because they
were registered.
So if you bought a bicycle from a bike shop in Madison and they
didn’t offer to register your bike, the shop was in violation of
city ordinance, and they did you a disservice. They could have
charged you the $10.00, easily gotten all of the required info
from you at the time of sale, and your serial number and contact
information would now be in an easily searchable bicycle
registration database.
Just thought you would want to know,
John Rider
(Former City of Madison Bicycle Registration Coordinator)
*From:*Bikies [mailto:[email protected]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>] *On
Behalf Of *Harald Kliems
*Sent:* Sunday, June 14, 2015 1:26 PM
*To:* William Hauda; bikies-danenet.org <http://bikies-danenet.org>
*Subject:* Re: [Bikies] Stolen bikes
There have recently been a couple of cases in Madison where a
stolen bike was recovered from pawn shops, at least partly based
on the recorded serial number. And then of course there were the
600 recovered bikes where the DA had to drop the case against the
alleged thieves/fences because it was impossibly to prove that the
bikes had indeed been stolen. Recorded serial numbers certainly
would've helped with that
http://www.wkow.com/story/29172015/2015/05/27/exclusive-police-seize-600-suspected-stolen-bikes-but-da-drops-case
So no, a recorded serial number won't prevent your bike from being
stolen nor from being sold on Craigslist or at a yard sale. But if
the bike _is_ recovered, it'll provide you with an easy way to
identify the bike and prove ownership.
Btw, the Bike Fed has partnered with BikeIndex to facilitate the
registration of your bikes in an online database:
http://wisconsinbikefed.org/2015/03/18/bike-theft-ring-busted-and-we-launch-stolen-bike-registry/
Harald.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 4:11 AM William Hauda <[email protected]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
This bike theft and the urging by Madison PD to keep a
record of
serial numbers for identification again begs the question of
how useful
that actually is. There is no national database of bicycle serial
numbers like there is of VINs for motor vehicles, so how can
knowing the
serial number of a stolen bike even be helpful?
http://www.channel3000.com/news/2700-bike-stolen-from-garage-in-madison-neighborhood/33549346
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